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... some hints toward our never- ending research into the moral anatomy of man . Literature of this kind is perhaps more congenial to the speculative thought of Germany than to the reading public of England . Still , I am not.
... some hints toward our never- ending research into the moral anatomy of man . Literature of this kind is perhaps more congenial to the speculative thought of Germany than to the reading public of England . Still , I am not.
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... Perhaps I shall continue to hear it till I have closed this narrative , which , by its restless recurrence , like an unlaid ghost , it has compelled me to commence . In the present instance it was but a single word that thus impressed ...
... Perhaps I shall continue to hear it till I have closed this narrative , which , by its restless recurrence , like an unlaid ghost , it has compelled me to commence . In the present instance it was but a single word that thus impressed ...
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... perhaps to science without love , and frigid- ly you ask for his bill , and sublimely you ring the bell , and honestly you feel that rather to the arms of Death than to the arms of a doctor would you confide the rescued treasure . I ...
... perhaps to science without love , and frigid- ly you ask for his bill , and sublimely you ring the bell , and honestly you feel that rather to the arms of Death than to the arms of a doctor would you confide the rescued treasure . I ...
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... Perhaps in this : Cease to be personages only , and become men , if you will not forego the prerogatives of man . Cease to live by convention in the narrow pride of position , and begin to live naturally in the large pride of hu- manity ...
... Perhaps in this : Cease to be personages only , and become men , if you will not forego the prerogatives of man . Cease to live by convention in the narrow pride of position , and begin to live naturally in the large pride of hu- manity ...
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... The count may have been not far from me , somewhere in the forest at the time of my fall . This paper , which looked like the page of a private journal , he may have had with him at the time . Perhaps the wind 78 THE DOCTOR .
... The count may have been not far from me , somewhere in the forest at the time of my fall . This paper , which looked like the page of a private journal , he may have had with him at the time . Perhaps the wind 78 THE DOCTOR .
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ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE Amasis amethyst apparition appeared arms beautiful boat body Bois de Boulogne brain Breslau brother CHAPTER chateau child Cloth cold consciousness Count Edmond countenance countess croupiers DANIEL BUTTERFIELD dark dead death Divine door dream Dutch Republic ed balls Egyptian eternity face fancy fatal ring father feel Felix felt finger forever Gentleman in Black hand haps hast heard heart honor hour human imagination Juliet Kabyl least light lips living look Loreley man's melancholy ment mind mond mother mysterious nature never night noble object once pain papyrus passed passion patient perhaps physician poor ring rock seemed seize sensation sense Sethos side sight silent Silesia soul sound spectre strange stretched suddenly swimmer thee Theresa thing tion Trente et Quarante turned valet voice words young
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